The age of the Universe is usually presented as a simple number: about 13.8 billion years. It sounds settled, almost tidy.

Four years after its first images reached the public, the James Webb Space Telescope has marked the anniversary with a portrait of a galaxy still bearing the scars of a violent encounter billions of ...

The first test images from a groundbreaking observatory named for trailblazing astronomer Vera Rubin have captured the light from millions of distant stars and galaxies on an unprecedented scale and ...

The pseudo-color images of JWST’s Quintet at redshift 6.71. a) The pseudocolor image created from NIRCam F115W (blue), F150W (green), and F200W (red) images. The five emission line galaxies in JWST’s ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While researchers did use the James Webb Space Telescope to discover a cluster of galaxies they called the "Cosmic Vine," they ...

A stunningly concentrated and hefty galaxy cluster, from a time in the universe's history when such massive structures aren't expected to have fully formed yet, is challenging cosmic evolution ...

The James Webb telescope peers through a warped bubble of space-time to study galaxies from the first billion years after the ...

When you look up at the night sky, it appears unchanging. But if you look deep enough you will find that the sky is in fact constantly shifting. Satellites, asteroids and interstellar objects pass by.

The panel on the left shows the so-called cosmic web, where the colour encodes the projected density of gas and stars. The two panels on the right zoom into two of the many galaxies formed in the ...

Scientists have captured the most complete, high-resolution map of the cold gas at the center of the Milky Way, which contains the raw material from which stars and planets are made. Information from ...